US National Security Adviser John Bolton has accused China of stealing secrets of the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet and using them as the basis to develop a stealth warplane of its own.

Speaking at a press conference in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on Wednesday, Bolton said China’s Chengdu J-20 fifth generation fighter jet is in many ways similar to it American rival.

"The fifth-generation Chinese fighter aircraft looks a lot like the F-35, that's because it is the F-35, they just stole it," Bolton said.

Bolton went on to link the issue to the ongoing trade war between China and the United States, repeating long-running claims by President Donald Trump and previous US administrations that the Chinese are stealing American intellectual property over the past decades.

Beijing has yet to respond to the claim.


First unveiled in 2011, the fifth-generation Chinese aircraft is generally seen as a direct response to America's F-35 stealth fighter jet.

In December, the US military was caught using for training purposes a full-size replica of the Mighty Dragon at a military facility near the Savannah-Hilton Head Airport in Georgia, home to the US Air Dominance Center (ADC).

The Marine Corps Training and Education Command (TECOM) said in a statement that it was “contracted with the US Army Threat Systems Management Office to provide full-scale, realistic aircraft and vehicle mock-ups for multiple Marine Corps bases,” including the J-20 model.

Bolton made similar claims against Russia earlier this month, accusing Moscow of stealing US technology related to the development of hypersonic weapons.

The Russian Foreign Ministry dismissed the claim, saying Washington itself had stolen countless technology designs from different countries around the world.

Bolton's face is cloned my D#ick.

"Bolton made similar claims against Russia earlier this month, accusing Moscow of stealing US technology related to the development of hypersonic weapons"

This Bolton is a clown. Even Russia has the edge in the field of hypersonic technology. US has not deployed the type of hypersonic weapons Russia has deployed so far.

The J-20 has canards the F-35 does not have so how is the J-20 a replica of the F-35? The Sheyang J-31 looks similar to the F-35 though.